The goal is pretty straightforward. There’s a list of dotfiles from my home directory. It loops through them and rsynca all file to a Dropbox folder for backup purposes. A cron job runs this nightly. Code has work well so far.

    #!/usr/bin/python
    
    import os
    from os.path import expanduser
    import sys
    import subprocess
    
    dotfiles = [
      '.ackrc',
      '.tmux.conf',
      '.vimrc',
      '.zshrc',
      '.gitconfig',
      '.ssh/config',
      '.zsh/MyAntigen.hs',
      '.vim/colors/dracula.vim'
    ]
    
    home = expanduser("~")
    src = home + '/'
    dest = home + '/Dropbox/Dotfiles'
    rsync = 'rsync --times'
    
    if sys.stdout.isatty():
        rsync = rsync + ' --progress'
    
    for item in dotfiles:
        src_file = os.path.join(src + item)
        cmd = rsync + ' ' + src_file + ' ' + dest
        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
        process.wait()

This is my very first Python script (first time using rsync too) and I just started very recently. I’ve put this together based on trial and error and a lot of Stack Overflow. So I’m here for some genuine feedback. Thanks in advance!

The goal is pretty straightforward. There’s a list of dotfiles from my home directory. It loops through them and rsyncs all file to a Dropbox folder for backup purposes. A cron job runs this nightly. Code has worked well so far.

#!/usr/bin/python
    
import os
from os.path import expanduser
import sys
import subprocess
    
dotfiles = [
  '.ackrc',
  '.tmux.conf',
  '.vimrc',
  '.zshrc',
  '.gitconfig',
  '.ssh/config',
  '.zsh/MyAntigen.hs',
  '.vim/colors/dracula.vim'
]
    
home = expanduser("~")
src = home + '/'
dest = home + '/Dropbox/Dotfiles'
rsync = 'rsync --times'
    
if sys.stdout.isatty():
    rsync = rsync + ' --progress'
    
for item in dotfiles:
    src_file = os.path.join(src + item)
    cmd = rsync + ' ' + src_file + ' ' + dest
    process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
    process.wait()

This is my very first Python script (first time using rsync too) and I just started very recently. I’ve put this together based on trial and error and a lot of Stack Overflow. So I’m here for some genuine feedback.

The goal is pretty straightforward. There’s a list of dotfiles from my home directory. I’d like to loop through them and rsync all file to a Dropbox folder for backup purposes. A cron job will run this nightly.

    #!/usr/bin/python
    
    import os
    from os.path import expanduser
    import sys
    import subprocess
    
    dotfiles = [
      '.ackrc',
      '.tmux.conf',
      '.vimrc',
      '.zshrc',
      '.gitconfig',
      '.ssh/config',
      '.zsh/MyAntigen.hs',
      '.vim/colors/dracula.vim'
    ]
    
    home = expanduser("~")
    src = home + '/'
    dest = home + '/Dropbox/Dotfiles'
    rsync = 'rsync --times'
    
    if sys.stdout.isatty():
        rsync = rsync + ' --progress'
    
    for item in dotfiles:
        src_file = os.path.join(src + item)
        cmd = rsync + ' ' + src_file + ' ' + dest
        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
        process.wait()

So the code works. But this is my very first Python script (first time using rsync too) and I just started very recently. I’ve put this together based on trial and error and a lot of Stack Overflow. So I’m here for some genuine feedback. Thanks in advance!

The goal is pretty straightforward. There’s a list of dotfiles from my home directory. It loops through them and rsynca all file to a Dropbox folder for backup purposes. A cron job runs this nightly. Code has work well so far.

    #!/usr/bin/python
    
    import os
    from os.path import expanduser
    import sys
    import subprocess
    
    dotfiles = [
      '.ackrc',
      '.tmux.conf',
      '.vimrc',
      '.zshrc',
      '.gitconfig',
      '.ssh/config',
      '.zsh/MyAntigen.hs',
      '.vim/colors/dracula.vim'
    ]
    
    home = expanduser("~")
    src = home + '/'
    dest = home + '/Dropbox/Dotfiles'
    rsync = 'rsync --times'
    
    if sys.stdout.isatty():
        rsync = rsync + ' --progress'
    
    for item in dotfiles:
        src_file = os.path.join(src + item)
        cmd = rsync + ' ' + src_file + ' ' + dest
        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
        process.wait()

This is my very first Python script (first time using rsync too) and I just started very recently. I’ve put this together based on trial and error and a lot of Stack Overflow. So I’m here for some genuine feedback. Thanks in advance!